We believe in the separation of speech and script when it comes to teaching Mandarin Chinese, called 3S theory. Spearheaded by Prof. Zhang Pengpeng, the theory explains how the studies of Chinese character handwriting (calligraphy) will slow down a student's progress. Therefore, the focus of our classes is on speaking, listening and reading; if you are interested in handwriting you may participate in one of our custom courses at our courtyard school in Beijing, licensed by the Chinese Ministry of Education.

using relevant examples during explanationreviewing materialasking questions to find out if students understoodanswering student questions appropriatelyrepeating things when students did not understandteaching in a step-by-step mannerproviding students with sufficient examples of how to do the workproviding time for practiceteaching the lesson at a pace appropriate to studentsexplaining things and then stopping so that students could think about itinforming students of lesson objectives or what they were expected to be able to do on completion of instructionpresenting the lesson in a logical manner.Clarity involves: